Year 2006 {Baby Book & Journal Filler}

Welcome to the year 2006!

Below you will find the list I compiled of major events, trends, world leaders, cost of living, and popular culture for the year 2006. I hope this helps you with the baby book or commemorative project you’re working on. If you don’t want to write down all this information, take a look at the printable versions.

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2006 Top Television Shows:

American Idol
Dancing With The Stars
CSI (CBS)
NBC Monday Night Football
CSI: Miami
Desperate Housewives
House
Deal or No Deal
Without a Trace
Top Movies:
Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Night at the Museum
Cars
X-Men: The Last Stand
The Da Vinci Code
Superman Returns
Happy Feet
Ice Age: The Meltdown
Casino Royale
The Pursuit of Happyness
Over the Hedge
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Click
Mission Impossible III

2006 Top Fashion & Trends:

2006 World Leaders:

President of the United States, George W. Bush.
President of China, Hu Jintao.
President of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair.
Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi then Romano Prodi on May 17.
Pope Benedict XVI of Vatican City.
Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh.
Prime Minister of Canada, Paul Martin then Stephen Harper on February 6.
Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard
President of France, Jacques Chirac.

2006 Major Events:

(Wikipedia)
January 1 – Russia cuts natural gas to Ukraine over a price dispute.
January 4 – Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel, suffers a severe stroke and cerebral hemorrhage.
January 16 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf assumes office as President of Liberia, the first female elected head of state in Africa.
February 10 – February 26 – The 2006 Winter Olympics are held in Turin, Italy.
February 17 – A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.
May 27 – A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes central Java in Indonesia, killing more than 6,000, injuring at least 36,000 and leaving some 1.5 million people homeless.
June 9 – July 9 – The 2006 FIFA World Cup begins in Germany.
June 28 – Operation Summer Rains: Israel launches an offensive against militants in Gaza.
July 9 – Italy wins its fourth FIFA World Cup title.
July 18 – The SS Nomadic, the last floating link to Titanic, returns home to a large reception in Belfast.
August 11 – A resolution to end the 2006 Lebanon War is unanimously accepted by the United Nations Security Council.
October 2 – Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
October 13 – South Korean Ban Ki-moon is elected as the new Secretary-General of the United Nations.
November 5 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging by the Iraqi Special Tribunal.
December 11 – Felipe Calderón sends the Mexican military to combat the drug cartels and put down the violence in the state of Michoacán, initiating the Mexican Drug War.

2006 Pop Culture:

June 18 – Former Beatle Paul McCartney turns 64 after writing “When I’m Sixty-Four” at age 16.
July 15 – Twitter is launched.
November 2 – No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock becomes the most expensive painting after it was sold privately at $140 million.
April 18 – Suri Cruise is born, daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.
May 28 – Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants Breaks the record held by Babe Ruth and hits his 715th home run to pass Babe Ruth on the all time greatest list.
-Google purchases YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock.
-Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston announce their break up.
-Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie coined the phrase ‘that’s hot’ while both getting DUIs this year.
-Reese Witherspoon/Ryan Phillippe, Britney Spears/Kevin Federline, Whitney Houston/Bobby Brown, Paul McCartney/Heather Mills, Pam Anderson/Kid Rock, Carmen Electra/Dave Navarro, and Kate Hudson/Chris Robinson all divorce this year.
– Anna Nicole Smith 21-year-old son dies just three days after the birth of her daughter in the Bahamas.
– Mel Gibson goes mad after an arrest for driving intoxicated and hurled anti-semitic slurs and sexist comments at the officers.

2006 Technology and Science:

MP3 player
Ipod
Itunes
MySpace
Blackberry phone
Motorola Razr phone
Camera phones emerge
Tivo
Xbox
Nintendo Wii
The laptop gains popularity
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January 15 – NASA’s Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a comet.
March 9 – NASA’s Cassini–Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers of a liquid substance shooting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of water.
March 28 – A scramjet jet engine, Hyshot III, designed to fly at 7 times the speed of sound, is successfully tested at Woomera, South Australia.
May – Human Genome Project publishes the last chromosome sequence, in Nature.
August 24 – The International Astronomical Union defines ‘planet’ at its 26th General Assembly, demoting Pluto to the status of ‘dwarf planet’ more than 70 years after its discovery.
November 8 – Mercury transits the sun. It is visible from the Americas, Eastern China, Japan, Australia, and Polynesia.